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W. H. ROHE'.

BOX COVER.

No. 277,061. Patented May 8,1883.

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WILLIAM H. noun, or 01mm, ILLINOIS.

BOX-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,061, dated May 8, 1883.

Application filed December 11, 1882.

' citizen of the United States, residing at Orete,

in the county of Will and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Covers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures 0t referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification-r- Figure 1 being an end view of a box provided withmyimprovement,showingthecoverclosed over the box Fig. 2, a corresponding view showing the cover shoved back to open the box; Fig. 3, a corresponding view showing the cover tilted back behind the box; Fig. 4., a vertical section of the box from front to back, showing the cover in the same position as shown in Fig.3.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention is applicable to packing-boxes of all kinds, being especially suitable for boxes in which eggs are transported.

Theinvention consists in the peculiar method of mounting the box-cover, substantially as follows:

.In the drawings, A represents the body or box proper, and B its cover. The cover, when (No model.)

'backward-and-forward movement on the box.

Near the rear edge of the box a pivot-pin, I), projects from each end into the slot at of the end strip of the cover, the said pins guiding and holding the cover in position. In Fig. 2 the limit of the backward movement of the cover is shown, each pin b being inthe front end of its slot a. When the cover is in this position it is free to swing down behind the box into the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the pins 1) b holding and suspending the cover by the forward ends of the slots a a. The rear ends of the box-cleats D D do not reach back so far as to prevent the cover-strips O C from hanging down behind them, as indicated in Fig. 3; but these cleats or strips serve to protect the pins 1) b from injury by an upward force against the slotted strips 0 O. This method of mounting and operating the box-cover is simple, cheap, compact, strong, and not liable to derangement. The cover is thereby always secnrely held in its position and cannot become detached from the box.

Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. In a box, the cover B, provided with strips 0 0, having longitudinal slots a a, in combination with pins '1) b, projecting from the ends of the box, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified. I

2. The cleats D D on the ends of the box,in combination with the slotted cover-strips O (J and pins b I), substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

In testimony whereof I affixmy signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

WILLIAM H. ROHE. 

